WASHINGTON — The United States will meet President Barack Obama’s goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country on Monday, the White House announced.
Obama sought a sixfold increase in the number of Syrian refugees provided safe haven in the United Stat …

Hitting the play button begins a scene that has played out in Syria thousands of times over the past five years. It’s dark and men are frantically yelling. A young child, later identified by media citing medical workers as five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, is passed between t …

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian rescue service operating in rebel-held territory said on Tuesday a helicopter dropped containers of toxic gas overnight on a town close to where a Russian military helicopter was shot down hours earlier.
The opposition Syrian National Coalition accu …

“We condemn the racially motivated killings of law enforcement officers in Dallas and mourn the loss of life. This was an act of domestic terrorism.
"Racial tensions are extremely high in this country – not just in the wake of the most recent highly visible killing …

Jo Cox, a member of the Labour Party in the British Parliament, died Thursday after an attack by a lone man who shot and stabbed her in West Yorkshire following a regular public meeting she held with constituents.
Her alleged killer is Thomas Mair, 52. According to eyewitness …

Muhammad Ali died Friday at age 74, according to a statement from the family. He was hospitalized in the Phoenix area with respiratory problems earlier this week, and his children had flown in from around the country.
"It's a sad day for life, man. I loved Muhammad Ali, he was …

In a separate written message posted online, Anonymous listed a number of websites chosen to be the initial targets in the attack including trump.com, donaldjtrump.com and trumphotelcollection.com.
Alongside these chosen targets, the post lists a slew of unverified personal in …

The demonization of Muslims, Latinos, immigrants and others became commonplace in 2015. Presidential candidate Donald Trump made headlines with a call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration and his description of Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers. He even cited …

During the event, a man who said he was from Connecticut told Trump about plans to relocate Syrian families into the community and let their children come to schools. When asked whether he'd be able to "look at these children" to tell them they couldn't go to school, Trump said …

Authorities arrested Ammon Bundy, leader of the armed protesters who took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, and several of his followers in a traffic stop Tuesday, officials said. LaVoy Finicum -- was killed during the arrest, a law enforcement official said.
The …

NEW YORK (AP) -- Character Abe Vigoda, whose leathery, sunken-eyed face made him ideal for playing the over-the-hill detective Phil Fish in the 1970s TV series "Barney Miller" and the doomed Mafia soldier in "The Godfather," died Tuesday at age 94.
Vigoda's daughter, Carol Vig …

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump quoted and linked to an openly neo-Nazi Twitter account on Friday.Trump’s tweet can be seen above.
Trump quoted and shared a posting from the account @WhiteGenocideTM that mocked his opponent former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. …

)David Bowie, whose ground-breaking sound and chameleon-like ability to reinvent himself made him a pop music fixture for more than four decades, has died. He had just turned 69 last week.
Bowie died Sunday after an 18-month battle with cancer, his publicist Steve Martin told …

Most of the men who joined the Bundy brothers in occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge are relative unknowns.
There is, however, a glaring exception: Jon Ritzheimer.
But unlike his new compatriots in the standoff in eastern Oregon, nobody seems to have known that Rit …

On the bumpy flight to Rome I read The Bible all the way. The passenger on my left - a wiry businesswoman from Wisconsin - found this disconcerting. As the turbulence worsened and I moved from Jude to Revelation, she hissed at me, "Do you have to?" "It's only background reading …

WASHINGTON – Russian warplanes sent to Syria to back the regime of Bashar Assad are breaking down at a rapid rate that appears to be affecting their ability to strike targets, according to a senior Defense official.
Nearly one-third of Russian attack planes and half of i …

Following the publication of the Israeli military’s probe into yesterday’s incident in which 13-year-old ‘Abd a-Rahman ‘Obeid Allah was killed in ‘Aida Refugee Camp by a 0.22 caliber bullet, B’Tselem demands that Israel’s security force …

On Saturday, images on social media showed bodies in Ankara covered in the yellow, purple and green banners of the Kurdish political party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party, or H.D.P. A video that was shared on social media and by the Turkish press showed a group of young de …

This is the most interesting part of Hanlin’s letter:
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that when a Sheriff chooses to enforce an unconstitutional directive, he is violating his Constitutional Oath. I will NOT violate my Constitutional Oath. Therefore, the second …

Kim Davis, the Kentucky country clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, is embroiled in yet another media firestorm following revelations that reports about her private meeting with Pope Francis during his recent visit to the U.S. may h …

George Zimmerman retweeted an image over the weekend showing the corpse of Trayvon Martin, the black teenager he shot and killed without consequence three years ago.
An apparent Zimmerman admirer tweeted the photo to him, adding a boast: “Z-Man is a one man army.”
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The SPLC, together with Faithful America, GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign and People for the American Way sent a letter today to each public servant invited to speak, encouraging them not to lend the credibility of their office to the summit. According to the summit's website, …

The bodies of a man and woman found in a barricaded apartment by police investigating an earlier Reno homicide were an estranged husband and wife who appeared as ghost hunters in the television show "Ghost Adventures." Reno police continued their investigation Wednesday but rel …

Trump, who is running for president as a Republican, has attracted the support of a number of prominent white supremacists, including David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
An edited transcript of HuffPost's conversation with Potok is below. The Trump campaign …

A change.org petition is calling for the removal of a 135-square-foot mural at the Baker County Courthouse in North Florida, saying it presents “a racially biased look at history” and should be removed from a building that is supposed to promote justice for all.
Th …